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Because there's vocals. If it has vocals, it's actual music, not pretentious classical stuff or nerdy subculture stuff. It's _totally_ not repetitive if there's different verses. Never mind that the neither the vocals or their backing need to be very musical to sell.

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Whoa! Slick Rick sampled that! That's pretty crazy, never would have even noticed that without that link.

I really appreciate when someone has the talent to do that...even though it might be unfair to the original creator.

But as far as the topic goes; I'm not sure why people dislike game beats, even though pop music recently is electronic. I think people claim to dislike electronic music, you know, "techno". However, add some lyrics and a popular musician to it, people love it.

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How is it that video game music is "shit and for kids" when mainstream music gets critical acclaim for USING THE EXACT SAME MONOTONY?

Because the majority of people are brainless idiots who will eat whatever the mainstream media spoonfeeds them and love it, and base their music/clothing/lifestyle tastes on the general social perception of the thing in question rather than the actual content?

That has to be the single most hipster thing I have ever typed. I feel I should now be wearing shutter-shades and frequently using the word 'sheeple'.

"Ur just hating"

This is the most enraging phrase in existence. It has the power to completely trivialize a perfectly valid (and most likely completely correct if that's the only rebuttal) negative opinion.

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I've been told that Nicki Minaj's superbass stole from the song "Poolside" from Tekken 5, but I've never done a comparison.

Because that would require me listening to Nicki Minaj.

I think there are some strong similarities(they do have some footage of a poolside) but proving someone actually stole what amounts to a jingle's worth of music is impossible to prove. This could become a question of when does an homage cross into plagiarism if the actual producer of the tune (not nicki of course) admits to being a huge tekken fan...

The only thing scarier than someone ripping off your music and making money would be to avoid writing a piece because someone may at some point be able to trace a few notes to another existing piece. So you could not write music and live normally or write music and get sued for it. The death of music, and they said it would never happen

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Now I understand there are times you want to hear "Booty bounce" and rejoice in the electronica (mostly sex related) but listen to that in comparison and say that one is not worthy of respect and the other is.

They're both great pieces of music and should be accepted on their merits. But since one is in a video game it's shit.

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There was a thread similar to this a while back about video game samples in modern music. Personally, I think its crazy that VGM gets shut out just because its VGM. Whenever someone tries to tell me that VGM sucks I show them this guy:

This won a Grammy. Even the "sheeple" have to admit that means something.

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I think everyone in this thread has either been responding to the title of thread or responding without actually listening to the songs in question

all three of which are absolutely horrible examples of the point being brought up

I hear little to no 8-bit influence. what you appear to be pissed about is simple analog synth sounds. but even then, most of the sounds are just layered saws or other standard trance/electronic sounds that have bled into pop and hiphop in the last 10 years... not 8bit

and it reminds people of old video games. games they don't play anymore and have probably somewhat blocked the memory of due to polarizing it against something "cooler" like sports or being a really broken person

bottom line is I agree with you. it sucks that TOTALLY CLICHE synth textures and HYPER-SIMPLE melodies with TOTALLY CLICHE drum samples and COMPLETELY BARE soundscapes top the charts, while dedicated songwriters/producers have to slowly build an audience. thanks to the internet, I prefer the latter